Edward Kennedy/Albert Gore v.s. Richard Nixon/Spiro Agnew.

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Neither Pres. Johnson, VicePres. Humphrey, or Robert Kennedy runs. Robert Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson reach a compromise, for one, where they will both throw their support to Edward Kennedy. Remember, in real life, Teddy and L.B.J. were good friends and got along very well. Teddy said this in his autobiography, as did L.B.J. in his, that L.B.J. got along with Teddy in real life because the youngest Kennedy remained a hawk on U.S. intervention in Vietnam until Hamburger Hill and until Nixon became President in 1969. There are many books and interviews on the subject. Edward Kennedy wins nomination and approval by the Johnson Administration because he takes a center right position on the war during his campaign. Wallace decides to run in the Democratic primaries against Kennedy and not as an independent. He stays neutral during the campaign after he loses nomination. Edward Kennedy chooses Tennessee Sen. Albert Gore as his running-mate. Teddy wins nomination on the first ballot. Gore by acclamation. They face Richard Nixon and Spiro Agnew in November. Skeptics have no fear Chappa and Mary Jo still happens. Stay tuned.

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Maps please.

[Peter the Lefty]

I've heard he'd started to speak out against the war by 67.

[badgate]

I'm always more hesitant to make maps of elections I wasn't alive for, but here goes:

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Sen. Ted Kennedy (D-MA)/Sen. Al Gore Sr. (D-TN): 401
Fmr. Vice Pres. Richard Nixon (R-NY)/Gov. Spiro Agnew (R-MD): 92
Fmr. Gov. George Wallace (I-AL)/Fmr. Gov. Marvin Griffin (I-GA): 45

Kennedy wins by a wide margin, simply due to his last name (and this is even if Chappaquiddick had happened before the election.)  After Kennedy wins the Dem nomination, Wallace drops out and runs as an Independent, selecting former Democrat Governor Marvin Griffin of Georgia as his running mate.

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In his inauguration speech Pres. Kennedy promises "Peace through Strength" in Vietnam, healing social divisions in America, and praises "the Great Society" legislation enacted by Pres. Johnson.
01/31/69.
Pres. Kennedy gives his first speech on Vietnam. He announces that the first 125,000 combat troops in Vietnam will be brought home by Independence Day. He also announces that the next 125,000 combat troops will be brought home by the end of 1969. Pres. Kennedy promises to follow the complete bombing halt of Vietnam promised and enacted by Pres. Johnson on October 31st,1968.
05/25/1969.
The first 125,000 thousand combat troops have been withdrawn from Vietnam. There are currently 410,000 troops in Vietnam. Pres. Kennedy pledges that North Vietnam must release all Prisoners of War before the United States withdraws.

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07/19/69.
Pres. Kennedy is implicated in the drowning and death Mary Jo Kopechne. Pres. Kennedy is expected to be charged next week.
07/22/69. Pres. Kennedy in a tearful speech resigns and asks for God's and this nations forgiveness.
07/23/69. Vice- Pres. Gore is sworn as the new President of the United States.
07/29/69. Pres. Gore scorns fallen Fmr. Pres. Edward Kennedy for his inhuman judgement, lack of moral fiber, and poisoned ambition. He announces that he will in no way intervene on Kennedy's behalf or grant him a pardon. Edward Kennedy's fate is entirely in the courts' and Gods' hands.
08/30/69. Kansas Governor Robert Docking is sworn in as the next vice-president.
10/15/69. Pres. Gore pulls out of the (SALT) Strategic Arms Limitation Talks with the Soviet Union and China citing that such agreement would be a slap in the face to all of America's Veterans and all American Soldiers in Vietnam.
12/3/69- Another 150,000 Military Forces in Vietnam are brought back home to their families. There are 260,000 remaining Military American Forces in Vietnam.

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03/05/70. In a televised nationwide speech, Pres. Gore announces that a cease-fire has been reached between American Ambassador to the United Nations Carl Sanders, the government of South Vietnam, and the Viet Cong to end the bloodshed in Vietnam and the fiery nightmare in Southeast Asia. During the next 90 days, all remaining U.S. military forces and all American Prisoners of War held captive by the North Vietnamese and the Viet Cong will be returned home to their families.

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05/18/70. The final Vietnam Veterans and POW's are returned home to their families.

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04/01/71.
Pres. Gore declares he will upheld the lifetime imprisonment with hard labor conviction for William Calley whom was convicted yesterday by the Military Court. Pres. Gore professes his belief in checks and balances and the separation of the three branches of government. Pres. Gore declares that Calley's fate is in God's and the Law's hands, and they have spoken.

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09/12/71.
Pres. Gore expresses skepticism and criticism in regards to the new Supreme Court Decision in regards to busing school children from various districts in order to achieve racial balance. Pres. Gore states that it will undercut all the progress made in easing racial hostility and animosity during the Kennedy and Johnson Administrations. He also states that the Supreme Court is using all parents and schoolchildren as their hostages.

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01/31/72.
President Gore signs into law a new 10 Billion across the board tax cut for all Americans, and he also signs into law a 500 Million dollar increase in defense spending.

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04/27/30.
Pres. Gore again chastises the Supreme Court for passage of the "Roe v.s. Wade" decision which legalizes abortion all together. He harshly declares that the Supreme Court advocates the brutal murders of babies everywhere and he compares Doctors whom perform abortions to some of the worst atrocities that occurred during Nazi Germany.

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07/10/72-07/13/72.
Pres. Gore and Vice-President Docking are renominated on the first ballot at the Democratic Convention in Atlanta, Georgia. Georgia Governor Jimmy Carter gives the keynote address.

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08/21/72-08/23/72.
Former Governor George Romney of Michigan is nominated on the second ballot at the Republican National Convention in Chicago, Illinois. He chooses as his running-mate Alaska Senator Ted Stevens. Congressperson George H.W. Bush of Texas gives the keynote address.

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09/12/72.
Governor George Wallace of Alabama endorses Gore.
09/18/72.
Senator Robert Kennedy of New York breaks party ranks and endorses Romney.
09/25/72.
Senator George McGovern of South Dakota also breaks party ranks and endorses Romney.
10/11/72.
Reverend Billy Graham endorses Gore.
10/17/72.
Former Vice-President and Republican Nominee Richard Nixon shocks everyone by switching his affiliation to the Democratic Party and announces his full support for the current Democratic Administration and the ticket of Gore and Docking.

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Gore/Docking 373 Electoral Votes.
Romney/Stevens 165 Electoral Votes.

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Comments or Maps anyone please!!

[Flake]

This is one of the most detailed and thought-induced scenario I have seen on this forum so far. My hat tips off to you, my good sir (or madam)

[Enderman]

This is one of the most detailed and thought-induced scenario I have seen on this forum so far. My hat tips off to you, my good sir (or madam)